The Tommyknockers
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The Tommyknockers is a novel by horror novelist Stephen King.
The novel, while maintaining a horror style, is actually a rare excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried beneath Bobbi Anderson's farm.
In his autobiography, King attributes the basic premise to the short story The Colour Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft.
A TV miniseries based on the novel first appeared in 1993.
King wrote the book in 1987 during a period of acknowledged substance abuse. In On Writing (2000), he wrote that he realized later on that the novel was a metaphor for that addiction.
ISBN numbers
- ISBN 0606041133 (prebound, 1987)
- ISBN 0451156609 (mass market paperback, 1988)
- ISBN 8401499984 (hardcover, 1992)
- ISBN 8401474655 (hardcover, 1999)
- ISBN 0399136991 (hardcover)fr:Les Tommyknockers